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The Jews’ Indian
Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America
Rutgers University Press
The Jews’ Indian investigates the history of American Jewish relationships with Native Americans, both in the realm of cultural imagination and in face-to-face encounters. This book is the first history to analyze Jewish participation in, and Jews’ grappling with the legacies of Native American history and the colonial project upon which America rests.
Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles
Origins to 1960
Rutgers University Press
Historically, Los Angeles has been central to the international success of Latin American cinema and became the most important hub in the western hemisphere for the distribution of Spanish language films made for Latin American audiences. This book examines the considerable, ongoing role that Los Angeles played in the history of Spanish-language cinema.
Animation
Edited by Scott Curtis
Rutgers University Press
The last installment of the acclaimed Behind the Silver Screen series, Animation explores the variety of technologies and modes of production throughout the history of American animation. Drawing on archival sources to analyze the relationship between production and style, this volume provides also a unique approach to understanding animation in general.
Watching Our Weights
The Contradictions of Televising Fatness in the “Obesity Epidemic”
Rutgers University Press
Watching Our Weights explores the competing and contradictory fat representations on television that are related to weight-loss and health, medicalization and disease, and body positivity and fat acceptance. Melissa Zimdars establishes how television shapes our knowledge of fatness and how fatness helps us better understand contemporary television.
The Movies as a World Force
American Silent Cinema and the Utopian Imagination
Rutgers University Press
The Movies as a World Force is the first analysis of utopian cinema writing; situating it in its proper intellectual contexts, theology, and political philosophy; and illustrating the ways in which its utopian imagination shapes and is shaped by the era’s most prestigious film genre, the historical crowd epic.
Some Kind of Mirror
Creating Marilyn Monroe
Rutgers University Press
Some Kind of Mirror offers the first extended scholarly analysis of Marilyn Monroe’s film performances, examining how they united the contradictory discourses about women’s roles in 1950s America. Amanda Konkle explores how Monroe drew from the techniques of Method acting and finely calibrated her performances to reflect her audience’s anxieties and desires.
Ethics and Law for Neurosciences Clinicians
Foundations and Evolving Challenges
Rutgers University Press
Science and technology are advancing more rapidly than regulations or the law can interpret and integrate them into a supportive or regulatory framework. This book is written for all clinicians in the neurosciences specialties who need to examine and re-examine the ethical and legal implications of advances in clinical neurosciences.
Divergent Paths to College
Race, Class, and Inequality in High Schools
Rutgers University Press
Megan M. Holland examines how high schools structure different pathways that lead to very different college destinations based on race and class. She finds that racial and class inequalities are reproduced through unequal access to key sources of information, even among students in the same school and even in schools with well-established college-going cultures.
There Has to Be a Better Way
Lessons from Former Urban Teachers
Rutgers University Press
There Has to be a Better Way offers an essential voice in understanding the dynamics of teacher attrition from the perspective of the teachers themselves. Drawing upon in-depth qualitative research with former teachers, the authors identify several themes that uncover the rarely-spoken reasons why teachers so often willingly leave the classroom.
Digital Cinema
Rutgers University Press
Stephen Prince offers a clear, concise account of how digital cinema both extends longstanding traditions of filmmaking and challenges fundamental assumptions about film. In the process, he raises provocative questions about the emergence of virtual reality, the future of film preservation, and the status of realism in digital cinema.
Unwatchable
Rutgers University Press
With over 50 original essays by leading critics and scholars, this is the first book to trace the “unwatchable” across our contemporary media environment, in which viewers encounter difficult content on various screens and platforms. Appealing to a broad academic and general readership, the volume offers multidisciplinary approaches to the vast array of troubling images that circulate in global visual culture.
Hollywood on Location
An Industry History
Edited by Joshua Gleich and Lawrence Webb
Rutgers University Press
Hollywood on Location is the first comprehensive history of location shooting in the American film industry, showing how this mode of filmmaking changed Hollywood business practices, production strategies, and visual style from the silent era to the present. The contributors explore how major studios came to embrace location shooting as a standard procedure.
Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan
By Amy Brainer
Rutgers University Press
In Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan, Amy Brainer provides an in-depth look at queer and transgender family relationships in Taiwan. Brainer is among the first to analyze first-person accounts of heterosexual parents and siblings of LGBT people in a non-Western context.
The Worlds of William Penn
Edited by Andrew R. Murphy and John Smolenski
Rutgers University Press
William Penn—political thinker, activist for liberty of conscience, and colonial founder—was instrumental in the early modern movement for religious toleration and political liberty. As we approach the 300th anniversary of Penn’s death, the time is right for a reexamination and reconsideration of Penn’s importance both in his own time and to the ongoing campaign for political and religious freedom.
The Worlds of William Penn
Edited by Andrew R. Murphy and John Smolenski
Rutgers University Press
William Penn—political thinker, activist for liberty of conscience, and colonial founder—was instrumental in the early modern movement for religious toleration and political liberty. As we approach the 300th anniversary of Penn’s death, the time is right for a reexamination and reconsideration of Penn’s importance both in his own time and to the ongoing campaign for political and religious freedom.
The Power of Dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians
Stories of Change from the School for Peace
Rutgers University Press
In The Power of Dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians, scholar and activist Nava Sonnenschein shares a collection of twenty-five powerful interviews she conducted with Palestinian and Jewish Israeli alumni of peacebuilding courses, showing the potential for a sustainable path to peace with equality in Israel and Palestine.
The Bartonellas and Peruvian Medicine
The Work of Alberto Leonardo Barton
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Medicine
The Bartonellas and Peruvian Medicine explores the events surrounding the discovery of the etio-pathogenic agent of the Oroya Fever by Dr. Alberto Barton. The book recounts Barton’s persistent work against skepticism and obstacles imposed by members of Peru’s medical elites, as well as his eventual successful scientific career and the delayed global recognition of his contributions.
The Indecent Screen
Regulating Television in the Twenty-First Century
Rutgers University Press
The Indecent Screen explores clashes over indecency in broadcast television among U.S.-based media advocates, the Federal Communications Commission, the TV industry, and audiences. Cynthia Chris focuses on decency debates since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which have called into question the roles of family and government, and the value of free speech.
Milking in the Shadows
Migrants and Mobility in America’s Dairyland
Rutgers University Press
Julie Keller takes an in-depth look at a population of undocumented migrants working in the American dairy industry to understand the components of this labor system. This book offers a framework for understanding the disjuncture between the labor desired by employers and life as an undocumented worker in America today.
The Politics of Fame
By Eric Burns
Rutgers University Press
The Politics of Fame is a provocative and entertaining look at the lives and afterlives of America’s most beloved celebrities, from Benjamin Franklin to Elvis Presley to Oprah Winfrey. It raises important questions about what celebrity worship reveals about the worshippers—and about the state of the nation itself.
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